The patched wine allows to run any D3D9 applications with nearly no CPU overhead, which provides a smother gaming experience and increased FPS. To achieve a low CPU overhead a new library, called d3d9-nine.dll, talks directly to the graphics driver.

You must "activate" that library to be used instead of the wine default (OpenGL backed) d3d9.dll.

Note: This library only work with Mesa and Gallium drivers.

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$ ./configure --with-d3d9-nine
$ make

Run the config tool to create a symlink from d3d9.dll to d3d9-nine.dll.so. On multiarch enable wine it creates to symlinks !

$ wine ninewinecfg

Run a D3D9 enabled application using wine.

If no longer required you can deactive it by using the ninewinecfg tool.

The master branch contains experimental features and is updated from time to time.

Stables branches are for package maintainers. Only fixes are pushed and (if stable) tagged.

The wine 3.0 branch is tagged: wine-nine-3.0-1

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